“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.”
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“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”
“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”
“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”
“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
“I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.”
“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
“There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.”
“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
“Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
“All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”
“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.”
“A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.”
“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”